Out of curiousity, I was looking up the free throw rules to see if Big Ben could take a step back from the free throw line and just shoot a regular jump shot for his free throws...and this is the link that I found.

www.slate.com/id/2111939/

Fans working together to mess up free throws. Mavs did it for 3 games, and the opponent shot 60%, 63% and 78% in those games....

Thought I would share since I found it interesting.

haha! neat article. i always wondered about everyone waving stuff in unison being more distracting.

thats shady.

Curious that Cuban, a self-proclaimed science guy, could conclude after only three games that the drop in free-throw shooting was random. You'd think he'd want a larger sample size.

Cuban's a tech guy, not a science guy. But yeah, I've read this a couple times in various places and that's my general take as well. He didn't spend enough time on it to do it right (the part about the Mav lackies not orchestrating it correctly) and even then he didn't give it enough time to actually see if it would work.

when Ben shoot's FT's we should set up the balloon's like those airport guys guiding the planes down, lol.